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A typical monograph of artist Glassford's (b. Texas, lives and works in Mexico) presented in non-linear form -a type of codex- featuring 3 books and allowing multiple juxtapositions and readings that accompanied the exhibition of his monumental intervention in the building of MUCA, an installation created using aluminum, acrylic and fluorescent lights thatallude more to a medical condition than an artistic or psychological reference to an "ExquisiteCorpse". The design of this volume included the collaboration of the artist, editor, contributors, designers and printers and mirrors the metaphorical labyrinth of its title and parodies the potentially narcissist, self-reflexive statement of the mid-career monograph. Includes texts by Beverly Adams, Manuel Hernández, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Francesco Pellizi and Roberto Tejeda.
"The first exhibition to offer a critical assessment of the artistic experimentation that took place in Mexico during the last three decades of the twentieth century. The exhibition carefully analyzes the origins and emergence of techniques, strategies, andmodes of operation at a particularly significant moment of Mexican history, beginning with the 1968 Student Movement, until the Zapatista upraising in the State of Chiapas. Theshow includes work by a wide range of artists, including Francis Alys, Vicente Rojo, Jimmie Durham, Helen Escobedo, Julio Galán, Felipe Ehrenberg, José Bedia,Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Francisco Toledo, Carlos Amorales, Melanie Smith, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, among m...
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Most youth who come in conflict with the law have experienced some form of trauma, yet many justice professionals are ill-equipped to deal with the effects trauma has on youth and instead reinforce a system that further traumatizes young offenders while ignoring the needs of victims. By taking a trauma-informed perspective, this text provides a much-needed alternative--one that allows for interventions based on principles of healing and restorative justice, rather than on punishment and risk assessment. In addition to providing a comprehensive historical overview of youth justice in Canada, Judah Oudshoorn addresses the context of youth offending by examining both individual trauma--includin...
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Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March-June 2007.